I can't believe it has been 10 years since the Great Flood because I remember it so well. I was scheduled for surgery that week and spent a rainy Monday at the hospital in Macon getting pre-op tests run. Sometime that afternoon, all non-emergency surgeries in the city were canceled. It would be almost a year before I underwent that surgery but that's a whole other story.

State lawmaker and county police detective Victor Hill defeated two-term sheriff Stanley Tuggle in the Democratic Primary. With no Republican on the November ballot, Hill is all but assured of being the 20th sheriff.